Hello. Im Your Lov Secret Santa. I Am So Sorry I Wasnt Able To Get It Done On Time. Ive Been Kinda Busy

hello. I’m your lov secret santa. I am so sorry I wasn’t able to get it done on time. I’ve been kinda busy and I didn’t wanna force myself cuz i was scared it’s just come out bad and I didn’t wanna give you a crappy gift. I’ll try to finish and post it this week but school just started for me again so I can’t say that I most definitely will. Again, I am very sorry.

Hello!

I’m really glad you’re okay! I got worried when the organizing blog went offline before I could make sure you were doing alright. This is great!

Thank you so much for letting me know how you’re doing. Take whatever time you need to finish everything, I’m totally fine with waiting until you’re ready. Good luck with school!

How Much Does Spinner’s Super Knife Knife Sword Weigh?

Inspired by the question posed by @hearth4days, I decided to take a stab at figuring out how heavy Spinner’s original sword from the Training Camp Arc is and put it into context.

The estimates for the weight of the blades making up the super knife knife sword, which I’ll now refer to as the SKKS, were based off of which blades resembled the ones on the following chart.

When I had trouble guessing the correct weight between two options, I rounded down to keep from overestimating the total weight of the SKKS. With that said, here are my calculations:

10 Swords at 14oz = 140oz = 8.75lbs

7 Swords at 1.5lbs = 10.5lbs

4 Swords at 2lbs = 8lbs

6 Swords at 2.4lbs = 14.4lbs

6 Swords at 2.8lbs = 16.8

5 Swords at 3.3lbs = 16.5

4 Swords at 5.3lbs (to estimate the core beneath the visible swords counted) = 21.2lbs

Added together = 96.15lbs

Doubled to estimate the unseen half of the SKKS = 192.3lbs

Now that the bulk of swords are calculated, I can add on the weight of the other items:

1 Hilt estimated at 7.7lbs (weight of your average claymore) = 7.7lbs

5 Belts (including the one at the hilt) at 10oz = 50oz = 3.125lbs

1/2in Chains at 2.4lb/ft x 5ft to wrap around the blades = 12lbs

All together, the SKKS comes to an estimated total of 215.125lbs. And that’s using rounded down estimations!

From what I can gather, the weight an average man can lift depends a bit on their style (low bar squat, bench press, deadlift, overhead press, barbell curl, etc.). For example, novices can deadlift about 225lbs for a single repetition while experienced dead-lifters can reach well over 400lbs. I looked at the weight training stances where multiple reps are performed while standing to simulate the stances used for sword fighting. In these, an experienced lifter can do 130lbs for 10 reps in an overhead press (175lbs 1-rep max) or 115lbs for 10 reps in a barbell curl (155lbs 1-rep max).

Spinner is an inexperienced hikikomori who took up villainy on a whim and had most likely never even touched a barbell before that moment, and here he is swinging that 215lb monstrosity every which way without breaking a sweat! Keep in mind he’s also running around with the damn thing, while weightlifters usually stay in place to focus all their energy on the arm exercise. Apparently Spinner saw those routines and said, “But you know what would be cooler? Adding cardio to it!” The absolute mad lad!

What Spinner is doing should be at least somewhat of a challenge for an expert and practically impossible for a novice, but this sweet lizard boi who’s favorite thing is video games just looked at those facts and went, “RIP to you guys I’m built different.” And honestly...

Good for him!

Tomura Shigaraki: Beautiful in every mood!

trying to find the right mood when i don’t even know what i want is,,, Hard.

I’m sorry I couldn’t help it!

I don’t know if this counts as “meta”, but let’s suppose that spinaraki actually becomes a canon romantic relationship in the manga. Hypothetically, how do you think the build up and the big moment that confirmed the relationship would happen/play out based on the story so far?

Oh man oh man

Idk what would be considered ‘canon romance’ - a kiss??? Confession scene?? Married with kids???? Horikoshi writing out the words “Spinner and Shigaraki are a couple”?????? - but for me, what would hit home, solid proof, all doubt annihilated would be something like:

Spinner saying his heart isn’t empty anymore because he met Shigaraki, because of Shigaraki.

Cuz that’s what started Spinner’s whole arc: he said he was completely hollow. He has nothing he wants to do, nothing he loves. Stain lit a fire in his heart, but it wasn’t enough, wavering in all direction, not bright enough to show him the road he needed to be on.

Now, currently, it’s Shigaraki’s dream that has started another flame, this one much more bigger, lighting up more of the road for him to take a few steps toward - now Spinner has something to do (following Shigaraki, protecting him), something to love/like (bonding over games with Shigaraki, the empty horizon) - but they’ve got a long way to go, especially not that a boulder named AFO suddenly got dropped right in front of them, blocking the path.

Now that I’ve finished with my dumb metaphors, basically, Spinner should go from being empty, to being full. And if that fullness concerns Shigaraki, especially if what Spinner wants to do is something like ‘always be by his side’ because ‘Shigaraki is important to him’, I’m taking that as a full, true confession from Spinner.

And Shigaraki reciprocates.

So for Shigaraki, I imagine the build up for him to be more subtle, maybe not so clear and out loud in words; but it would be him turning away from destruction, looking away from that empty horizon and instead seeing the League - seeing Spinner.

Shigaraki’s dream to destroy everything is ultimately self-destructive. It’s gonna wither away his thoughtfulness and care for the few people he’s fine with, it’ll interfere with what they want too. There’s not gonna be room for any positive emotion in his heart, rage and hatred having swallowed up everything, including love.

For love to exist, Shigaraki must have something he doesn’t hate. Not hating something means he cares, even if just a little, that he found something valuable and worth keeping. This being shonen, it’s obviously going to be the people he keeps close - his League, his friends. Why are friends so great? They’re connections to the world, they’re bonds that can’t be so easily broken, they make you feel better. How? Maybe because playing video games together is fun. And then maybe he doesn’t want to take that away from his player 2, since after all, he promised the League they get what they want.

Currently, Player 2 is... Spinner, who’s shown to be the most significant in plot and development, the character in the lead for ‘most likely to reach out to Shigaraki to help him’. Why would Spinner do that? Because he loves Shigaraki.

So, we’ve come in a full circle! Spinner cares for Shigaraki, and this makes Shigaraki care for Spinner. Kick it up a notch, and you get ~love~. And that’s Shigaraki putting aside total destruction to instead be with Spinner - for Spinner - who has vowed to be by Shigaraki’s side.

My god this is disgustingly pure and sweet, wtf

How so this get convey in the manga???? Idk, real good art. Preferably Spinner’s claws are involved again. The two of them close, all beaten up looking, protective of each other. Names being spoken with ellipses trailing off. Bonus if it’s their first names for some reason. Just. Shigaraki says whichever name - “Spinner...” or “Shuuichi...” - in response to something Spinner says or do, in a context like this, I’m taking that as his love confession. First name basis for these two is like marriage lbr.

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Idk, so tl;dr, something like this:

“For most of my life, my heart was completely empty. But... then I met you.”

“...Spinner...”

“So whatever you decide to do, Shigaraki... I’ll follow.”

“...Do what you want, I’m not your leader anymore... ...But fine. Let’s go then...”

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